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"China’s rulers view the West as ill-disciplined, weak and venal, and are seeking to bring it to heel, like a dog...China is increasingly sure that America is in long-term, irreversible
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The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell (1937) "the ugly fact that most middle-class Socialists, while theoretically pining for a classless society, cling like glue to their miserable fragments
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"Mao wished to purge the higher echelons of power...He turned to radical students, giving them licence to denounce all authority...party officials [encouraged] the youngsters to raid the homes of class
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People don't have genes, genes have peoplePeople don't have ideas (memes), memes have people Memes are “units of culture: ideas, beliefs, practices, and anything else that can be passed on
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"the Communist revolutionary Pol Pot ordered his followers, the Khmer Rouge, to kill intellectuals, clear out cities and eradicate religion. By the time the Pol Pot regime collapsed in 1979,
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A common mistake is to view elites as a unified block. A group of people who look out for one another. They are not. Elites are constantly trying to get
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Thread with excerpts from one of my favorite Isaiah Berlin essays, "The Originality of Machiavelli" Or, as Paulie from The Sopranos calls him, "Prince Matchabelli" http://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/published_works/ac/machiavel
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"Its ferocity is breathtaking...Despite the more than 1000 papers now spilling into journals and onto preprint servers every week, a clear picture is elusive, as the virus acts like no
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People used to signal status with luxury goods. Today they do it with luxury beliefs /1 In the past, only high status people could afford luxury goods. But today goods
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The best books I read in 20191. The Social Leap by @BillvonHippel https://amzn.to/2SdCNx8 "At least since the steamship, people have traveled the globe with relative ease. Yet no one thought to
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